Individual recording device for shipping purposes



May 29, 1923.

W. H. BECKER INDIVIDUAL RECORDING DEVICE FOR SHIPPING PURPOSES Filed Aug. 2, 1919 Frow fn Vedior."

May 2399 'WALTER E. OF BRNEAU, DAHO.

Application filed August 2. 1919.5 Serial No. 314,848.

To all ivo/7mm t may concern.' l

Be it known that l. llihiixrnn l'l. Becken. a citizen et the United States. residing Bruneau.r in the county oi? Owyhee and State ot idaho, have invented certain new and useful. improvements in lndividual llccording levices tor Shipping' Purposes.y ot which the following` is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved individ al ,recording device for shipping` purposes and has as one ot its principal objects to provide a device whereby an accurate shipping` record maybe kept.

The invention 'has as a 'further object to provide a recording device which may itselt be employeditor making` a record concerning the package carrying` the device.

And the invention has as a still further object to provide a device which will materially simplify the recording' ot goods in transit since the one device attached to each package may be employed tor making' a record at every oliice through which the package passes, thus making it an easy matter to trace the package from the oice of dispatch to the otilce oit delivery.

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Other and incidental objects will appear hereinafter.

ln the drawings:

Figure 1. is a plan view showingf my invention embodied in a shipping` tan*7 Figure 2 is a similar view showinga slight modification. and

Figure fl is a plan view showing; a type ot record book which maybe employed in connection with the invention and illustrating the manner in which records may be entered in the book.

Referring now more particularly to Figi;- ure .1 ot the drawing. T have shown-my invention embodied in a shipping tag 10. its is usual. the tap; is formed with an eye 11 for receiving; a suitable attaching cord and is provided with an appropriate space for receiving; the name and address ot thesendei" as well as the naine and address ot the addressee. Formed through the tag' preterabl y adjacent its lower end is a stencil number indicated at 12. This number is the number ol the shipping point or oiiice issuing;l the tag. Below the shippingf point number.y the tag is formed with stencil date numbers indicated Aat 13, designating the date oft issue of the tap; or date of mailing; trom the shippingr point oie the package to which the tag is attached. A. stencil number', indicated at kas embodied in a shipping tag 16. modification, the numbers indicated at 17,

14, is also formed through the tap below the number 12 and provides an individual record number tor said tag.r This number indicates the consecutive order ot issue oit the tag.

inl use7 it is intended that each shipping `point or oliice shall have au individualshipping point or oiiice number as typified bythe number 12 and as the 'tagsare'issued by each point or oi'lice. they willv be provided 'with a current date number as typiiied by the number 15.v Through the tags will also be provided a consecutive record number individual to each shipping point or oliice as typified by the number 14;. f Thus, upon the issue of atan. as 'for instance tlietag' 10, the

tag may be employed in makina. in a suitable record book 15. a record at the shipping; point or office, of the package to which the tap; is attached. As illustrated in Figure 3,

the pages of the book may be consecutively dated and each page will be provided with a space headed packages received and a similar space headed packages sent. Further, each shipping` point or oice will be provided with one of the record books and may thus7 by positioning each tag issued upon the proper page ot the book and in such manner that the stencil numbers will be disposed in the desired position within the proper space of the page,y stencil a record of each package in the book. Similarly, a record in the book may be made ot each package received by every shipping;` point or office, as typically suggested at the right of the sending entry of Figure 3. Therefore, after a tag` has been issued by any one oiiice and is attached to a package the one tan* may be employed in making the record ot the package at the shipping' oiice and also at every shippingn point through which the package passes. Consequently, should it become necessary, the package may be easily traced.

Tn Figure 2 ot the drawings, T have illustrated a slight modification of the invention ln this 18 and 19 each respectively correspond to the numbers indicated at 12. 13 and 14 of the preferred construction, but instead of being stencil numbers., are raised trom the tag so that the numbers 17.. 18 and 19 niay be employed for making an impression in a record` book. Otherwise7 this modification is identical with the preferred term ot the invention. However, in this connection it should be observed that l do not wish to be limited to the specific embodiment oi-theinvention in a shipping tag' since, aswill be-'understood, the invention may well be embodied in an envelopeor othersimilar container or could be embodied in any appropriate article adapted for .attachment to aipackage or bill,

rof goods. Iftherefore, reserve the Arigzht to all such variations as mayiallwithinthe spirit of thevappended claims.

- Having` thus :described theinventio'n.y what is claimed as newv is: v

l. A shipping tag provided lwith a space for an address, a permanent record producing `symbol de'noting'the sending oHice placed adjacent one edge of the tagfother symbols` denotinglthe sendingy f lateand the individual number Yof the tagl placedbetweensaid edge the individual number ot' the tag placed ybe-v tween said edge and the irst symbol.

3. yThe method of .recording` articles ot transit consisting inthe use of! tags provided with permanent'V stencil. 'symbols indicating the sendingV oiiicemand positioned adjacent vone edge of each tag; applying other stencil symbolsfbetween said `edge and said first symbols on the tags, said other symbols indil eating the individual number ofeach tag and the sending'date,` and producing copies by stencili-ng .from said symbols; u

LThe method of recording artic/les of transit consisting in the use of tags lprovided ywith permanent stencil symbols indicating` the sending office and positioned ,adjacent one edge of'each-tag; applying other stencil symbols between said edn'eand saidl first symbols on the tags, said other symbols indieating the individual number'of each` tag` and the sending` date; in combination with the use rof ledgers having sending,` and vreceiving columns and reproducing said symofA the ledgers for' identification. n In testimony whereof 'I affix my signature. WALTER H. [ns] bols by stenciling in the appropriate column i 

